I need help with choosing a website provider for a visual portfolio website to showcase not only work but my personality through web design
Looking specifically for flexible creative templates and opening/welcome page (like a full bleed image with my name on it for people to click on to open the website - sort of a business card before you get to the actual portfolio part).
I have in mind a very colourful and messy wesbite that depicts visually a collage making craft in its overall design and showcases diverse range of projects from painting and book making to photography and embroidery.
Also, if you can think of any exmaples of such website aestehtic, please provide me with link to it so I can get inspired.
In the past I used wordpress but found it way too limiting without purchising pro features of the temaplates and way too dififcult to use the coding.
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- squarespace is really good place to start :)
- Really suggest you to try Webflow out. It's very flexible, and have many handy tutorials. The learning curve is short as well. I use wordpress before as well, after use webflow. I never go back. Specially for designer with no-coding skill, but if you want realize some complicate functions, will need some time to learn. Webflow helps me to become a "full-stack" designer, now, I can build website according to my design.some site I build with my designtracktrek.webflow.iosweet-house.webflow.ioalso my portfolio(I'm planning to update the design)johnnygu.comThis is not a AD :)feel free to ask, if you need some suggestion, I am happy to answer :)
- You should use Flothemes! They are absolutely the best! I have tried a lot of Website building systems! Flo is the easiest and bestest out there!Their customer care is out of this world and their templates are stunning! While they use wordpress as basis, their templates are so easy to customise , no coding needed and there is nothing you can't change! Honestly, best!https://flothemes.com/
- Have you used Semplice (https://www.semplice.com)? They have a showcase of real websites using it at https://www.semplice.com/showcase and a load of other examples dotted around the website. Semplice is built on top of wordpress, but has a lot of flexibility.Something similar to that is https://carbonmade.com.There's also webflow (https://webflow.com) which seems to be growing quite a lot too, and has a lot of flexibility.If none of the platforms/templates/themes out there, have what you're looking for, you'll probably need to have something custom made. I'm happy to lend a hand if you decide to go down that route
- Hi. I made mine with Squarespace. Not sure if it will be of any inspiration/help to you:mindher.co.uk/scrapbookhowever, I feel what you're really looking for is a personalised website, where you get someone to make it for you with html codes and such :)
- Some websites for inspiration after googling:https://www.kristinasmolyar.com/https://www.tamarhalpern.nyc/https://www.amitworks.com/portraitshttps://www.oliviatruong.design/http://www.matildesimone.fr/https://www.shailayvonne.com/https://blueregard.format.com/Great source of graphic/web inspiration:https://dribbble.com/You can create something fast with these below:https://www.squarespace.com/and Adobe:https://spark.adobe.com/sp/even Google gives you option to build a website:https://www.google.com/business/website-builder/You have plenty of options out there, but to create something specific "messy and colourful" you need to use something more custom with tools like:Wordpress + a theme with ready-made templates:https://themeforest.net/popular_item/by_category?category=wordpressCheap minimum £39Or you head to web flow:And create something fast and more custom with a ready domain name:https://webflow.com/Last option is to hire someone to do it for you and make it exactly as you want it.Hope I helped a little bit :D
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